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...President's predicament-grew steadily through the week. Day by day, there were fresh disclosures of questionable actions by top White House and federal officials. Trying to explain away the matter once and for all, the White House issued a paper outlining its dealings with Billy and his Libyan friends and flatly denying that anyone in the White House had ever discussed Billy's failure to register as a foreign agent with anyone in the Justice Department. But that only made things worse-much worse. Three days later Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti had to recall publicly that...
...beginning of 1978, Gaddafi's Libya, once one of the more backward and impoverished of the Arab countries, had few friends abroad. A radical who considers the Palestine Liberation Organization too moderate, Gaddafi had vociferously opposed the peace overtures of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Egyptian and Libyan armies had even engaged in border skirmishes. A supporter of worldwide terrorist activities against governments he opposes, Gaddafi was considered unreliable by Soviet leaders, although they were generously plying him with sophisticated arms. While Gaddafi kept selling oil to the U.S., his relations with Washington had been strained ever since...
...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
...White House," Shahati told Papa. "My American friends in the oil business tell me that this Billy Carter is approachable and likable." Papa was surprised that Leanza, being from Georgia, did not know Billy, but he persuaded Leanza to carry an engraved invitation to Billy from the Libyan government to visit that country at its expense...
Sober now, he set out to seek some income on April 26, 1979, by looking up an old Marine buddy, Jack McGregor, who was then executive vice president of Carey Energy Corp. Billy told McGregor that he could help Carey Energy secure Libyan oil. McGregor explained that his company was being purchased by a conglomerate named the Charter Co. and suggested that Carter make his pitch to the new owners...